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Control of Eating Behavior Using a Novel Feedback System
Published on: May 8, 2018
[Anorexia nervosa and music therapy]
Stéphane Scotto Di Rinaldi1, Jean-Luc Sudres2, Amélie Rousseau3
1Service de pédopsychiatrie Espace-Arthur, Hôpital Salvator (AP-HM), 249 boulevard Sainte-Marguerite, 13009 Marseille, France; Centre d'études et de recherches en psychopathologie et en psychologie de la santé (CERPPS), EA 7411, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, Maison de la recherche, 5 allée Antonio-Machado, 31058 Toulouse cedex 9, France.
Abstract:
Supporting people suffering from anorexia nervosa remains a challenge. While traditional treatment focuses more on speech and its emergence for the patient and family, non-medicinal and non-verbal therapies are used more systematically, sometimes as a last resort. Yet, as a non-verbal mediated therapy, music therapy can find a legitimate place and complement all the psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, somatic, dietetic and nursing areas where speech already circulates.
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